Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day (Vinyl)
Just Another Diamond Day is the 1970 debut album by the English folk singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan.
The story of Vashti Bunyan is one of the most incredible in all of music. A London art school drop-out, Bunyan had the luck to meet and impress Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. She recorded some singles during her brief flirtation with swinging London but was disheartened with the way things were going. So rather than hang out and stagnate with the counterculture nonsense around her, she pulled a disappearing act and in the summer of '68, Bunyan and her partner Robert hitched a horse to a cart and left London for the Isle of Skye on the Scottish coast.
They were searching for a rural throwback existence, a traditional life in a quiet place to raise their children, to grow their food. They would find it, but not before fate intervened to make Vashti the "Godmother of the modern psych-folk scene" according to some.
Over the course of their two year trek into the rural past Bunyan had been writing songs about their horse drawn journey and about the life they imagined when they arrived. Legendary producer Joe Boyd heard about this and managed to coax Bunyan back to London for one week of sessions with members of The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention, along with Robert Kirby who had scored Nick Drake's album.
Only 500 copies of "Just Another Diamond Day" were originally pressed, and according to Joe Boyd only about 150 were sold. Bunyan was upset that the album was so clearly ignored and unceremoniously threw music over her shoulder. She would not record or perform again for three decades as she retreated to an idyllic private life of raising her three children in rural Scotland and Ireland.
LP, Reissue, Remastered, White Vinyl
Diamond Day 1:45
Glow Worms 2:13
Lily Pond 1:25
Timothy Grub 3:22
Where I Like To Stand 2:22
Swallow Song 2:16
Window Over The Bay 1:53
Rose Hip November 2:26
Come Wind Come Rain 2:07
Hebridean Sun 1:12
Rainbow River 3:23
Trawlerman's Song 1:56
Jog Along Bess 3:36
Iris's Song For Us 1:26
Just Another Diamond Day is the 1970 debut album by the English folk singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan.
The story of Vashti Bunyan is one of the most incredible in all of music. A London art school drop-out, Bunyan had the luck to meet and impress Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. She recorded some singles during her brief flirtation with swinging London but was disheartened with the way things were going. So rather than hang out and stagnate with the counterculture nonsense around her, she pulled a disappearing act and in the summer of '68, Bunyan and her partner Robert hitched a horse to a cart and left London for the Isle of Skye on the Scottish coast.
They were searching for a rural throwback existence, a traditional life in a quiet place to raise their children, to grow their food. They would find it, but not before fate intervened to make Vashti the "Godmother of the modern psych-folk scene" according to some.
Over the course of their two year trek into the rural past Bunyan had been writing songs about their horse drawn journey and about the life they imagined when they arrived. Legendary producer Joe Boyd heard about this and managed to coax Bunyan back to London for one week of sessions with members of The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention, along with Robert Kirby who had scored Nick Drake's album.
Only 500 copies of "Just Another Diamond Day" were originally pressed, and according to Joe Boyd only about 150 were sold. Bunyan was upset that the album was so clearly ignored and unceremoniously threw music over her shoulder. She would not record or perform again for three decades as she retreated to an idyllic private life of raising her three children in rural Scotland and Ireland.
LP, Reissue, Remastered, White Vinyl
Diamond Day 1:45
Glow Worms 2:13
Lily Pond 1:25
Timothy Grub 3:22
Where I Like To Stand 2:22
Swallow Song 2:16
Window Over The Bay 1:53
Rose Hip November 2:26
Come Wind Come Rain 2:07
Hebridean Sun 1:12
Rainbow River 3:23
Trawlerman's Song 1:56
Jog Along Bess 3:36
Iris's Song For Us 1:26
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